CU Linguistics 2017 PhD graduate Sam Beer, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Virginia,聽has received a grant from the聽Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL) program,聽a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) intended to develop and advance knowledge concerning endangered human聽languages. In his project, Dr. Beer will聽digitize, annotate, and analyze legacy recordings聽of two endangered Kuliak languages of northeastern聽Uganda, Nyang'i and Soo. He聽will also conduct new fieldwork with current speakers.聽Dr. Beer will digitize or聽scan 25-30 hours of old audio recordings and 3,000-5,000 pages of old field notes on聽Soo and Nyang'i. He will transcribe/translate/annotate a subset (with transcriptions/broad translation for everything, and annotation for a subset), in order to develop聽perspectives on聽language change, language death, the evolution of the field of linguistics, and how talk captured on the fly becomes linguistic data.